Celebrity promoters of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX -- including Larry David, Tom Brady, Giselle Bündchen, Shaquille O’Neal and Stephen Curry -- have been named in a class-action lawsuit accusing FTX and its "brand ambassadors" of deceptively encouraging consumers to invest in the company.In a complaint filed Nov. 15 in Florida federal district court, Edwin Garrison, an Oklahoma resident who says he purchased a yield-bearing account from FTX, seeks to represent a class of “thousands, if not millions, of consumers nationwide"...
Religion of Sports, 199 Productions
Tom
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Brady made national headlines when he retired and unretired from pro football in early 2022, but the big news in showbiz circles this year is the quarterback’s growing presence as a Hollywood player. In February, he announced “80 for Brady,” a fact-based feature about four friends who travel to Super Bowl LI in 2017 to see Brady play, which he’s producing with Endeavor Content and Paramount through his global multiplatform content company 199 Productions. Four months later, Religion of Sports, the media outfit he co-founded with Michael Strahan and entrepreneur Gotham Chopra, revealed it had raised $50 million in Series B financing that will be used to scale its output. To top all that, he scored a mammoth 10-year, $375 million deal with Fox Sports in May to join the broadcast booth when he does finally retire for good.